Video Works by Klaus vom Bruch
Thursday,
March 30 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., continuously
Video Works
to Be Screened
 Das
Duracellband (The Duracell Tape)
1980, 10 min., 4 sec., color, sound
In this dynamic collage vom Bruch assembles powerful metaphors
for threat and force, using fragmented images from media advertising and
archival documents from World War II.
Luftgeister (Air Spirits)
1981, 8 min., 10 sec., color, sound
In the opening sequence vom Bruch makes explicit the collision
of collective memory and mass media images, presenting history as mediated
by cinema and television representation.
 Der
Westen Lebt (The West Is Alive)
By Klaus vom Bruch and Heike-Melba Fendel
1983, 4 min., 30 sec., color, stereo sound
Fusing cultural iconography and personal imagery, vom
Bruch and Fendel construct a post-Freudian self-portrait that positions
desire within the context of the apparatuses of historical, cinematic,
and sexual representation.
Kobolds' Gesänge (Goblins' Songs)
1986, 5 min., 10 sec., color, stereo sound
This starkly reductive and hypnotic work is structured
around a single charged image. Vom Bruch's torso is inscribed with a rotating
communications satellite, creating a composite image that metaphorically
describes a collapse of the private and public space of mass media.
 Text
and images from Electronic Arts Intermix, "Online Catalogue: Klaus vom
Bruch," www.eai.org. Reprinted, with
modifications, by permission of Electronic Arts Intermix.
See also the Klaus
vom Bruch home page.
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